Membracis fairmairi Goding, 1928

Sakakibara, Albino M. & Evangelista, Olívia, 2010, Membracis foliata (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Membracinae) and allied species: an effort towards their correct determination, Journal of Natural History 44 (35 - 36), pp. 2131-2148 : 2140

Membracis fairmairi Goding, 1928

Membracis foliata ; Fairmaire, 1846, p 245, pl 4, Figure 21 (type-locality: “Cayenne”). Membracis fairmairi Goding, 1928, p 201 ; McKamey, 1998, p 209 (cat.).

Membracis fairmairei [sic]; Metcalf and Wade, 1965, p 1229 (cat.).

Fairmaire (1846) presented M. foliata and indicated Figure 21 at Plate IV of his work. This figure, however, illustrates a very different specimen from which he referred to in the description (= M. flaveola ): “Flava, fascia maculaque fere triangulari nigris [yellow, with band and triangular spot black]”.

Goding (1928) named it M. fairmairi , with the following diagnosis “Dorsum with a transverse white band extended to and along lateral margins to subapical band, anterior half of pronotum immaculate black”.

M. fairmairi closely ressembles M. celsa , except for the anterior vertical white band on the pronotum, which is absent in the former species. No specimens of this species were examined. The type-locality is “Cayenne” [French Guyana], as indicated by Fairmaire.